Farthest North - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Two-volume set in Very Good condition. Second UK edition issued without DJs. Elaborately decorated green cloth over beveled boards with designs and lettering in gold, silver, and red. Gilt edges. Boards feature the ice-bound ship, The Fram; spine depicts solitary figure on mountaintop. Vol. I frontispiece is portrait of Nansen. Very slight yellowing to the title page likely due to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1898. (Hardcover set) xv, 480, viii, 456pp. Very good. Dark green cloth with beveled edges, each volume with elaborate illustrations in gilt and silver on the cover and spine. All edges gilt, color plate, photographs, illustrations, folding color map, index. Some wear at the edges and corners, and the map repaired… Saber más sobre este artículo

Westminster, UK: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 vols.; VG-; mid-20th century rebacking of dark green leather, with raised bands and gilt lettering and design; previous boards in green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and design preserved; corners mildly bumped; spines slightly cocked; some foxing and fingerprint stains throughout; contains black and white photos, color… Saber más sobre este artículo

London; MacMillan; 1897.. First Colonial Edition (Published in the same year as the First Edition); Cr. 8vo; Volume I. pp. viii, 351; Volume II. pp. viii, 471; both volumes bound in their original blue cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, cloth a little worn, endpapers browned, good set. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893-1896 was an attempt to reach… Saber más sobre este artículo

Westminster; Archibald Constable and Company; 1897.. First UK Edition; Roy. 8vo; Volume I. pp. xvi, 510; Volume II. pp. xvii, 671; portrait frontispiece, title pages printed in red and black, 16 coloured full-page plates, 111 b/w. full page plates, 92 text-illustrations, and 4 coloured maps, both volumes bound in their original green cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. A very good set, some light wear at exgtremities, but generally very clean and fresh. 2 volumes, 8vo. Four folding chromolithographed maps in pockets in volume one. Engraved frontispiece by Johan Nordhagen, 16 color plates, tissue guards. Original decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (the first edition in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Thus. Hardcover. A few marks to boards. Gutters split at endpapers. Moderate foxing. Owner's signature dated 1898 "N Edgar Bagley".; Two volumes (complete). Macmillan's Colonial Library edition. Volume One dated 1897, Volume Two undated. Volume One: [viii], 351, [1] pages + 8 pages advertisements. Volume… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First American edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. x, [4], 587; x, [2], 729, [1], 4; frontispieces, 16 color plates after the author's sketches, four color maps laid into chemise mounted to front pastedown, black and white text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; publisher's dark brown decorative cloth stamped in gilt, green, red,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1897. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A bright set of the first US edition in Nearly Fine condition. A most handsome and collectible documentation of historical significance. All four folded maps present. Arctic Bibliography 11983; The Nobel Laureate's account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof … Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Early reprint. Two volumes. Tall octavos. 587; 729pp. Frontispiece etchings, 120 full page and other illustrations, all four of the original maps are present in pockets, all tissue guards present. Dark gray cloth decorated in silver, gilt, red, and green. Very near fine.

London: George Newnes, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1898. 2nd UK Edition. Cloth. The second English edition following the Archibald Constable publication from a year earlier. Elaborate silver and gilt pictorial cloth binding. Little foxing, mainly to endpapers, rear endpapers of Volume II cracked, hinge a trifle weak, else Fine in alike custom cloth-slipcase; The Nobel Laureate's account… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Archibald Constable and Company,, 1897. First edition, preceding the first edition in Norwegian of the same year. Nansen's expedition was a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration, undertaken to investigate "the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the pole" (Arctic Bibliography). "Nansen returned… Saber más sobre este artículo

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1897. 2 volumes. First edition. 16 chromolithographic colour plates from Nansen's own sketches, 120 plates, a profusion of illustrations in text, 4 large folding coloured maps at the rear of the volumes. Royal 8vo, publisher's original turquoise green cloth lettered in gilt on spines and covers with gilt pictorial decorations of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Archibald Constable & Co, London, 1897. 1st edition. Hardcover. The first UK publication of Nansen's famous journey to try to reach the North Pole. Each volume is in fine or near-fine dark-green cloth with gilt spine lettering and front-cover vignettes, some light corner wear as expected. The pages are very clean, the endpapers lightly browned, the four maps are… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1897. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the bindings of both volumes with volume two a shade darker in the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text blocks. Contents clean and bright despite the limited age-toning. . ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.8kg. shipping… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First Edition. Very Good. Two volumes [9.75x6.75in]; Vol. I - x, [2], 587 pp., Frontispiece etching of Nansen, 94 illustrations and images, 8 color plate sketches by Nansen, 4 folded maps, Vol. II - x, [1], 714 pp., [1-4] advertisements, frontispiece of sailing kayaks, 123 illustrations and images, 8 color plate… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Duckworth . This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in publisher's blue coloured cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not Price clipped.There are NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.There are… Saber más sobre este artículo

Westminster:: Archibald Constable and Co.,, 1897. Illustrated with over 120 wonderful illustrations including 16 colour plates fron Nansen's own sketches. Four folding maps. Bound in the publisher's original turquoise cloth with the great sailing ship Fram rendered in gilt on the front cover of volume I and a scene depicting an explorer and dog sled team in a snow storm… Saber más sobre este artículo

Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very large, thick, sturdy softcover, glossy dark blue background to front wapper and spine with a white and gray illustration on front of star and rays, a sailship in ice, a border of yellow rope, dark blue at top and bottom back wrapper, white… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1897. A remarkable achievement in Polar exploration First US edition of the official account of the first Fram expedition, undertaken to investigate "the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the pole" (Arctic Bibliography). "Nansen returned to international acclaim… Saber más sobre este artículo